I don’t really care how Pete Hegseth chooses to change or frame the military compared to the recent past, but I still love this fantasy world where the US military has just been getting its ass kicked due to wokeness or climate initiatives. Did we have an electric tank get beat on the battlefield or something?
Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread
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I don’t really care how Pete Hegseth chooses to change or frame the military compared to the recent past, but I still love this fantasy world where the US military has just been getting its ass kicked due to wokeness or climate initiatives. Did we have an electric tank get beat on the battlefield or something?
cajunrevenge
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Trump Will Have 'Intimate' Dinner With Whoever Spends The Most On His Memecoin
Sen. Chris Murphy called it "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done."
In I cant believe this is real news the President of the United States and convicted felon is offering an up close diner with him to whoever buys the most of his meme coin. This is common for campaign fundraisers but not when they are directly financially benefitting the President.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
It's nto a matter of a melt down, it's a matter of it being highly illegal. If he wants to do it and is allowed to it will be a constitutional crisis.
This Administration’s steadfast refusal to understand the basic concept that it’s wrong to ship someone to forever jail (in a country they legally could not send him to) without a trial showing they committed a serious crime is so baffling to me. There’s just so, so many ways they could do what they want to do on illegal immigration without this specific problem holding up their progress.
cajunrevenge
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Trump Pardons Disgraced Politician Who Used Money Raised For Slain Police Officers to Pay for Plastic Surgery
A jury found she solicited donations she said would go to a memorial statue honoring slain cops, but used the funds for, among other things, plastic surgery.
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Trump pardons woman who raised money to build a statue of 2 police officers who died but spent the money on herself. Trump sure does seem to love people who commit fraud.
cajunrevenge
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No he is serious. He never intends to leave. Its 2028 now but if allowed we will just be talking about running again in 2032 at this same point. He will face prosecution if Republicans lose the WH. He will undoubtably commit more once leaving office and is still awaiting trial in Georgia.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The Trump administration is abruptly reversing course and restoring the legal status of thousands of international students whose status was suddenly terminated without warning or explanation this month, said a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.
Attorneys representing students in several lawsuits have also been told of the policy shift by government attorneys.
“It’s already starting to happen all over the country,” said Charles Kuck, an attorney in Atlanta who brought a lawsuit representing 133 students against the government.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which runs the student visa program, started ending the legal status of international students earlier this month without any warning or explanation, creating widespread confusion and panic on college campuses across the country.
Once students’ legal status is terminated, they must leave the country in a matter of weeks—or risk arrest and deportation.
Attorneys representing students in several lawsuits have also been told of the policy shift by government attorneys.
“It’s already starting to happen all over the country,” said Charles Kuck, an attorney in Atlanta who brought a lawsuit representing 133 students against the government.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which runs the student visa program, started ending the legal status of international students earlier this month without any warning or explanation, creating widespread confusion and panic on college campuses across the country.
Once students’ legal status is terminated, they must leave the country in a matter of weeks—or risk arrest and deportation.
zbhargrove
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LOL.... 58D Chess
I feel like the truth of whether or not ICE was acting legally in their actions with their warrant in the courtroom is the decider between if this is some dark authoritarian shit or a perfectly valid charge.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process” and against the wishes of her father.
In a brief order issued from Federal District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Terry A. Doughty questioned why the administration had sent the child — known in court papers only as V.M.L. — to Honduras with her mother even though her father had sought in an emergency petition on Thursday to stop the girl from being sent abroad.
“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty, a conservative Trump appointee. “But the court doesn’t know that.”
Asserting that “it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport” a U.S. citizen, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
www.nytimes.com
In a brief order issued from Federal District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Terry A. Doughty questioned why the administration had sent the child — known in court papers only as V.M.L. — to Honduras with her mother even though her father had sought in an emergency petition on Thursday to stop the girl from being sent abroad.
“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty, a conservative Trump appointee. “But the court doesn’t know that.”
Asserting that “it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport” a U.S. citizen, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects
A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
According to court papers, the 2-year-old girl had accompanied her mother, Jenny Carolina Lopez Villela, and her older sister, Valeria, to an immigration appointment in New Orleans on Tuesday when they were taken into custody by officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Ms. Lopez Villela was scheduled for an expedited removal from the country on Friday. And in a filing to Judge Doughty, lawyers for the Justice Department claimed that she “made known to ICE officials that she wanted to retain custody of V.M.L. and for V.M.L. to go” with her to Honduras.
But in a petition filed by the child’s custodian, Trish Mack, on Thursday, her father claimed that when he spoke briefly with Ms. Lopez Villela, he could hear her and the children crying. The father reminded her, the petition said, that “their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported.”
The father, who was not identified by name in the petition, tried to give Ms. Lopez Villela the phone number for a lawyer, but he claims that officials cut short the call.
The detention of V.M.L. “is without any basis in law and violates her fundamental due process rights,” the petition said. “She seeks this court’s urgent action and asks the court to order her immediate release to her custodian Trish Mack, who is ready and waiting to take her home.”
Judge Doughty said in his order that he tried to investigate what had happened himself by trying to get Ms. Lopez Villela on the phone on Friday shortly after noon to “survey her consent and custodial rights.”
The judge expressed concern that a plane carrying the mother and her daughters was by then already “above the Gulf of America.” His suspicions were confirmed, he wrote, when a lawyer for the Justice Department told him at 1:06 p.m. that day that Ms. Lopez Villela and presumably her children “had just been released in Honduras.”
Ms. Lopez Villela was scheduled for an expedited removal from the country on Friday. And in a filing to Judge Doughty, lawyers for the Justice Department claimed that she “made known to ICE officials that she wanted to retain custody of V.M.L. and for V.M.L. to go” with her to Honduras.
But in a petition filed by the child’s custodian, Trish Mack, on Thursday, her father claimed that when he spoke briefly with Ms. Lopez Villela, he could hear her and the children crying. The father reminded her, the petition said, that “their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported.”
The father, who was not identified by name in the petition, tried to give Ms. Lopez Villela the phone number for a lawyer, but he claims that officials cut short the call.
The detention of V.M.L. “is without any basis in law and violates her fundamental due process rights,” the petition said. “She seeks this court’s urgent action and asks the court to order her immediate release to her custodian Trish Mack, who is ready and waiting to take her home.”
Judge Doughty said in his order that he tried to investigate what had happened himself by trying to get Ms. Lopez Villela on the phone on Friday shortly after noon to “survey her consent and custodial rights.”
The judge expressed concern that a plane carrying the mother and her daughters was by then already “above the Gulf of America.” His suspicions were confirmed, he wrote, when a lawyer for the Justice Department told him at 1:06 p.m. that day that Ms. Lopez Villela and presumably her children “had just been released in Honduras.”
You don’t understand. If we let an activist judge stand in the way of deporting a 2-year-old citizen without following the judicial process, MS-13 will murder every single American citizen.A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process” and against the wishes of her father.
In a brief order issued from Federal District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Terry A. Doughty questioned why the administration had sent the child — known in court papers only as V.M.L. — to Honduras with her mother even though her father had sought in an emergency petition on Thursday to stop the girl from being sent abroad.
“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty, a conservative Trump appointee. “But the court doesn’t know that.”
Asserting that “it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport” a U.S. citizen, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects
A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”